The flying snake lives in trees and has no appendages. To glide, the snake forms its body into an "S" shape. Instead of steering by banking or leaning as airplanes do, the snake changes the pattern of how it slithers and undulates.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 10:55 AM

China has publicly stated that it intends to be able to sink an American aircraft carrier. Among the technologies that could allow China to do this are anti-ship cruise missiles, which China could fire from land across long distances, and which it is now developing. China is also developing an over-the-horizon radar network with which to track surface ships.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 10:50 AM

The World Trade Center was a huge tool of that American solution. But its architecture in the context of its site said no more than that. It served Mammon, but did not express by its form that the Mammon it served served God. Its replacement must say triumphantly that the terrorists have been defeated not only in terms of wealth and power, but in terms of spiritual goodness and moral beauty as well.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 10:38 AM

Sontag added, "To cast Riefenstahl in the role of the individualist-artist, defying philistine bureaucrats and censorship by the patron state ... should seem like nonsense to anyone who has seen Triumph of the Will." Snarled Riefenstahl in reply: "It's a mystery to me how such an intelligent woman can talk such rubbish."

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 10:35 AM

The deadline comes at a time when Zimbabwe is facing severe food shortages.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 10:22 AM

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 09:39 AM

I saw this movie for the first time on cable the other night and I'm still thinking about it, so I decided to ask amazon to send me a copy of the book. I want to know more about these two people because if I know more, then maybe I can figure it out. Nicolas is great in the movie along with Sting's version of Angele Eyes. I can still hear him singing, "Excuse me while I disappear..."

l also ordered a copy of the Moulin Rouge DVD because I've been meaning to order it for a while now. It meets one of my criteria for owning a copy of a movie, the one that says I won't get tired of watching it over and over. This rule was established with my first DVD purchase, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 08, 2002 07:17 AM

Central Command would not release further details, such as what information was stored on the computers and what office or person was responsible for them.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 07:06 AM

"I don't condone what the victim did," Frazee said, after Gibson's attackers were led away. "It was repulsive. But he was punished at the hands of these defendants -- tortured -- and the law does not allow for that."

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 05:22 AM

"We don't do anything to their movies. We just put a shield over parts of the movie that would be objectionable to some people."

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 04:56 AM

Sweetheart, incidentally, supplies 7-Eleven with its 44-ounce Super Big Gulp cups, which are a blatant example of America's swelling desire for huge beverages. To satisfy this near-bottomless thirst, Deignan says the company is considering producing an 80-ounce cold drink cup.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 04:53 AM

The Quebec Superior Court justice said he decided to dismiss the jurors and start anew after questioning their ability to remain impartial if the trial continued. He was referring to a remark in a letter written by the jurors last week in which they stated they were aware certain parties in the case wanted a mistrial.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 04:49 AM

"When I heard the news that the tube had fizzed to life in Bhutan," writes Alexis Bloom, co-producer of "The Last Place," "I knew the kingdom was on the verge of irrevocable change. Could MTV and Buddhism make comfortable bedfellows?"

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 04:46 AM

The WashingtonPost.com's "dot.mil" columnist, William Arkin, has an article up re "Country X," the notional target of Pentagon wargame exercises... Arkin makes a case that it's Iraq. But the WashPost's accompanying graphic is a silhouette of... Iran:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49207-2002Aug6.html

I sent e-mail this morning to Arkin, the site editor, and their world person... they have yet to amend or disappear the erroneous map. Or maybe it's part of a plan, either to see how many Americans could actually recognize Iran on the map, or to warm us up to the idea of attacking them too... :-P

Ross

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 03:44 AM

I also suggest that we all start forwarding the same junk faxes to the courts in the 8th Circuit as "friend of the court" information as well as the legislators that represent us. They might take note of the severity of the problem.

Posted by GeeTee at August 08, 2002 03:41 AM